This is a collection of helpful tools when working with Adobe Flex SDK and Rails. Some patterns adapted from Peter Armstrong's book, Flexible Rails (http://www.flexiblerails.com).

Installation

script/plugin install http://flexible-rails.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/plugins/flexible_rails

Rake Tasks

Rake Tasks assumes Flex 3 SDK is your PATH

rake flex              # Run all Flex tasks
rake flex:compile      # Compiles Flex Applications and moves swf(s) into public/bin directory
rake flex:static       # Moves JS, CSS, and index.html located within app/flex into respective public/ folders

Generators

./script/generate flex ApplicationName [ComponentName]

The first parameter specifies the ApplicationName that will be created. A Skeleton MXML file will be created in app/flex directory, as will a skeleton components directory in app/flex/com/applicationname/components. If public/bin does not exist, it will be created to hold you application SWF's

The second parameter specifies the name of an Application Component that will be created in app/flex/com/applicationname/components. The skeleton component will be <mx:Canvas />

to_xml (Fix for Flex)

The to_xml() method will now by default use :dasherize => false

respond_to

respond_to blocks in your controller will now only display .html blocks in non-production modes. This allows you to view scaffold in Development, Test, without changing your codebase in production

Copyright (c) 2008 Jae Hess, released under the MIT license